Highest-Rated Movies about 'Mysterious Death'

How to Draw a Bunny (2002), Knives Out (2019), Trick (1999), The Banshee Chapter (2013), The Changeling (1980), The Legend of Hell House (1973), The Beast With Five Fingers (1946), The Tomb of Ligeia (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mysterious Death movies.

#16. The Undying Monster (1942)

Storyline: A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.—Graeme Huggan <hia95gh@sheffield.ac.uk>

Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, film noir, supernatural, gothic, murder, detective ...

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#17. Circus of Horrors (1960)

Storyline: In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, deformed by bombs from the war. Later he becomes the owner of the circus, and continues transforming disfigured women into the beautiful stars of his show. The police and a nosy reporter (as well as Scotland Yard) become interested when the women who want out of the circus begin dying in freak accidents, and they begin suspecting the good doctor is responsible.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, circus, murder, psychological thriller, film noir, mystery ...

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#18. The Mephisto Waltz (1971)

Storyline: Myles Clarkson, a classical piano player on the rise, befriends Duncan Mowbray Ely, a famous player himself who is at death's door. Unknown to Clarkson, Ely is a Satanist, who arranges to have their souls switch places at his death, so that he can be young again and continue to play piano.—Humberto Amador

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, demonic, possession, pianist, music ...

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#19. Child's Play (1972)

Storyline: Paul Reis returns to the exclusive Catholic prep school he graduated from nine years earlier as a gym teacher. He is reunited with his former mentor and English teacher, the affable and gregarious Joseph Dobbs, the most popular member of the faculty and advisor to the junior class, and Jerome Malley, a strict disciplinarian and teacher of classical languages, whose old-fashioned methods make him heartily disliked by his pupils. Reis finds himself caught in between the two men in a struggle for the hearts, minds, and souls of the boys. Malley, nicknamed "Lash" by his students has ruled out retirement, and Dobbs, who feels that Malley has lost touch with the students, hopes to inherit the senior class. Even though Malley's mother is dying an agonizing death from cancer, the Latin and Greek teacher refuses to surrender his position as head of the senior class to a man whose motives he questions. The tensions on the faculty are mirrored in the student body, which has endured a rash of malicious hazing and ritualistic violence that no one on the staff seemingly understands.—duke1029@aol.com

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, psychological horror, supernatural, revenge, murder ...

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#20. Ringu 2 (1999)

Storyline: In this sequel to Ringu (1998), Mai Takano is trying to learn more about the death of her boyfriend, Ryuji. She soon hears stories about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a girl named Sadako, who died many years earlier. Supposedly, anyone watching the tape will die of fright exactly one week later. After some investigating, she learns that Ryuji's son, Youichi, is developing the same psychic powers that Sadako had when she was alive. Mai must now find some way to keep Yuuichi and herself from becoming Sadako's next victims.

Plot Keywords: horror, suspense, supernatural, curse, ghost, sequel, psychological horror ...

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#22. The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)

Storyline: Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro Indians is still in effect and that he himself is the probable next victim. That night he is awakened by the approach of an Indian, his lips sewed together with string, and wielding a curare-tipped bamboo knife.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, supernatural, curse, revenge, murder ...

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#23. The Canal (2014)

Storyline: Film archivist David (Rupert Evans) has been having a rough time lately, as he suspects that his wife Alice (Hannah Hoekstra) has been cheating on him with Alex (Carl Shaaban), one of her work clients. This stress is compounded when David's work partner Claire (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) gives him a reel of to-be-archived footage that shows that his house was the setting for a brutal murder in 1902. Becoming progressively more unsettled and unhinged, David begins to believe that a spectral presence is in his house and ends up following his wife to a nearby canal, where he discovers that she is indeed having an affair with Alex. When Alice goes missing shortly afterwards, David contacts the police- only to become the prime suspect in her disappearance. As the police grow more convinced that David has murdered his wife, he struggles to find proof of his growing suspicion that something otherworldly was instead responsible.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, supernatural, haunted house, psychological horror, murder ...

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#24. The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013)

Storyline: The Dyatlov Pass follows a group of American students on a trek to investigate the true life mystery of nine Russian skiers who befell unexplained deaths while skiing in the Russian mountains in 1959. To this day, their deaths have been one of the most bizarre unsolved mysteries of the 20th century.

Plot Keywords: mystery, thriller, horror, sci-fi, adventure, supernatural, based on true events ...

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#25. The Possession of Michael King (2014)

Storyline: Michael King (Shane Johnson) doesn't believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the supernatural, making himself the center of the experiment - allowing demonologists, necromancers, and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest and darkest spells and rituals they can find on him - in the hopes that when they fail, he'll once and for all have proof that religion, spiritualism, and the paranormal are nothing more than myth. But something does happen. An evil and horrifying force has taken over Michael King. And it will not let him go.

Plot Keywords: horror, exorcism, supernatural, found footage, demonic possession, dark forces, psychological terror ...

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#26. Doomed to Die (1940)

Storyline: Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: mystery, crime, detective, film noir, murder, investigation, inheritance ...

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#28. Equinox (1993)

Storyline: Henry Petosa and Freddy Ace are twins who were separated being babies, and they do not know each other. Henry was adopted by a honest man, while Freddy becomes a gangster. Henry is very shy and has a lot of mental troubles. The film melts the two stories by a young writer who discovers that they were sons of an european noble and they own a large inheritance—Michel Rudoy <mdrc@hp9000a1.uam.mx>

Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, supernatural, demonic, cult, revenge, murder ...

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#29. The House on Skull Mountain (1974)

Storyline: Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since that day, his daughter Tanja retired to a life of seclusion, covering with a dark veil her disfigured face. Professor Nijinski was once a student of Rassimov; he married Tanja, and he's trying to restore her lost beauty with a series of skin transplants. However, to reach his goal, professor Nijinski needs beautiful young victims for his transplant experiments.

Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, supernatural, cult, revenge, family secrets, inheritance ...

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#30. Countdown (2019)

Storyline: In a teenage party, a group of friends download the app Countdown that predicts when the user will die. The teenager Courtney sees that she has just a couple of hours to live and does not accept the ride of her drunken boyfriend Evan. She walks home but she is killed by a supernatural creature when the timer in her cellphone reaches zero. Meanwhile Evan crashes his car at the same time of her death and he goes to a hospital where the nurse Quinn Harris works. Evan discloses that he is afraid to go into surgery since the app Countdown predicts that he will die at the same time of the surgery. The doctors and nurses of the hospital decide to download the app and Quinn learns that she has only three days of life. When Evan mysterious dies in an accident at the hospital, Quinn buys a new cellphone and finds that the app is also installed. When she meets Matt Monroe at the parking lot of the store, she learns that his death is predicted for a couple of hours before her and they team-up to look for a means to break the curse.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, curse, survival game, death, fate ...

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